The Dalai Lama’s Advice

This subtitled video of the Dalai Lama’s talk on Dolgyal at Drepung Monastery, Mundgod in January, 2008 contains photographic evidence of the Chinese Governments campaign to reshape Tibetan Buddhism in the Chinese mould by eradicating devotion to Guru Rinpoche [latterly…

Following long and careful investigations, His Holiness the Dalai Lama strongly discourages Tibetan Buddhists from propitiating the fierce spirit known as Dolgyal (Shugden). Although he once practiced Dolgyal propitiation himself, His Holiness renounced the practice in 1975 after discovering the…

Understanding history is a useful way to understand what is true and what is false. If we are to understand the way in which the founder of the latter day cult of Shugden, Pabongka, and his spiritual descendents the New…

Further Reading

Dolgyal Shugden pages at

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